Meet my new MS guru: a Beagle puppy!
The best disease-modifying treatment for multiple sclerosis might just happen to arrive in the form of a lively puppy, complete with a wagging tail, furry paws, and a wet nose ready to patrol your central nervous system.
Is Multiple Sclerosis its own worst enemy?
MS doesn’t concern itself with how long your bucket list is. It adds unexpected chapters to your story where you didn’t want any, and it’s up to us to fill these pages advocating for our own new normals, even when we feel ill-equipped.
Valentine’s Day, just another chronically ill day
Ergo, XXL tracksuit sweater, leggings, and Ugg boots. The coif of the day, so to speak, because you're not expecting a past beau to walk in and wipe you off your feet (you can do all that yourself with MS balance issues that hit you hugging the floor). So, any beaus out there? You should've put a ring on it when you could've. Even Beyonce got so flustered she had to sing about it.
The first day, 18 years later
Fiercely independent as always, my first thought was that, "Erm...wait, what?! No, I am not adapting to anything. No way. Nope. Nada. Not happening. With all due respect, Professor... I moved to Ireland 2 years, 6 months, 12 days and about 23 hours ago. That change you ask of me? Ain't happening.
MS: the lies we tell ourselves
Schadenfreude must be MS's middle name because it seems to enjoy the trouble it is giving you by dragging other symptoms along in an orgy of severe fatigue, numbness, cognitive issues, neuropathic pain, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Oh, there’s the dog thing…
You and I will have to overcome certain difficulties, one of which is my perceived view on time, while I know time is a non-existent concept to you. Both of us have body clocks, but that’s about as far as your time management goes.
COVID-19: a thought-provoking, dire warning by WHO’s Dr Mike Ryan
It is time to take mental and emotional health more seriously. If not your own, then try to understand the impact medical professionals feel each day, experiencing repeated exposure to abhorrent events that turned hospital wards into medical warzones.
